Signatures: A-2O⁸ 2P⁶. Signatures B4, O3, P3 and 2K misprinted as A4, 3O, 3P, and 2R respectively.

"Thesoro spiritual de pobres, y pan de cada dia muy sabroso: que es vna breue, y muy compendiosa doctrina, en la lengua de Michuacan, declaratiua de los mysterios de nuestra sancta fee catholica, y de la ley de Dios, y de todo lo contenido en la comun doctrina, que a los fieles se suele enseñar. Y a esta, se sigue otra declaracion a cerca de las promessas diuinas a los buenos: y amenazas a los malos. ... Ponese al pri[n]cipio la pequeña doctrina cartilla, emendada y corregida, de los yerros, que en las primeras impressiones tenia." -- added t.p. on leaf 12r.

Full page woodcut ills., ornamented capitals and headings, text within borders, printers device in colophon. Roman type, except for blackletter in pedagogical section, leaves 13v-15r.

Foliation errors: 241 misprinted as 24.

Catchword discrepancies: 90r ua[n]darona to 91v napu, 274r tzin to 274v tzit. Leaf 118v repeats final word of 118r. Leaves 51v, 91v, 119, 125v, 126r, 254r, 262r, 275v and 283v lack catchwords. The letters i and y are often used interchangeably.

Prefatory material followed by Cartilla para los niños (leaves 12v-32r, a revision of his 1559 catechetical work), in Latin, Spanish and Tarascan, the latter sections marked with * in the margins. The Thesoro spiritual (leaves 32v-302) is entirely in Tarascan.

Scriptural references in margins.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, 257.

Medina, J.T. Mexico, 72.

García Icazbalceta, J. Bib. mexicana (1954 ed.), 73.

Sabin 27360.

Palau y Dulcet (2. ed.) 102194.

Viñaza. Bibl. lenguas indígenas, 59.

John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: lacking leaves 1-10 (including t.p.), 217-224, 289 and half of leaf 302 (with colophon). T.p. information based on Icazbalceta.

Ms. annotations throughout.

John Carter Brown Library copy has: Nicolás León: bookplate.